I want to update my sources.list file with the fastest server from the command line in a fresh Ubuntu Server install. I know this is trivially easy with the GUI, but there doesn't seem to be a simple ...

I want to setup a new virtual machine with some specified packages (name and version), that are provided.
For example apache2 in version 2.2.20-1ubuntu1 with all dependencies. Even if there is a new ...

I have all images of Debian, Ubuntu and Ubuntustudio as .iso. How can I use them as repository to install my desired packages with sudo apt-get install package-name?
I easily mount the .iso file with ...

Many questions are answered simply with add this repository and install.
I understand that Ubuntu developers cannot quickly verify all packages and make them available in official repositories. But ...

I would like to ask a very basic question but I have never thought about it before.
Well, when someone installs an application from terminal, he has to add the repository first, right? On the other ...

I copied "archives" folder (/var/cache/apt/archives) from another computer which was fully updated and had some packages that i want. Can someone guide me how to add my USB drive in repository list so ...

I've added the ppa here
https://edge.launchpad.net/~stebbins/+archive/handbrake-releases
When I run sudo apt-get update, the software sources aren't found. I figured maybe they hadn't updated their ...

Introductory Background to the question below###
(so the question is more usable to more people)
Inside of an Ubuntu/debian-style package (*.deb file) there is a file named
/DEBIAN/md5sums which has ...

I have Google Chrome installed from the Google Chrome repository. When I run sudo apt-get update, I notice that getting headers relating to Google Chrome takes more time than is needed to get all the ...

If I need Sun Java, Adobe Flash Plugin or anything else that comes from Canonical Partners the package downloads are painfully slow even small sized packages like the Flash plugin, to speed things up ...

After talking about this with some people I found out they had newer versions of the software I had but, at that time, I had no updates for my system. A day later those updates did show up and I was ...

I want to create my own deb repository to store some packages. I've tried
reprepro and it works fine, except for one fundamental feature. Reprepro can't
store several versions of the same package in ...

I am a student at Case Western Reserve University, and the bandwidth from the Ubuntu servers to my location is often horrendously bad (on the order of a few hundred bytes per second). Myself and a few ...

When i find a interesting program i want to test and install in ubuntu i first check if it's available in the repository. For that i use the software center.
But does a possibility exist to check it ...